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George Harrison
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
George Harrison was born on 25 February 1943 in Liverpool, the youngest of four children. His mother supported his love of music. In 1958 he joined The Quarrymen, John Lennon's group that later became The Beatles. There he first played lead guitar. His early models included Carl Perkins, Chet Atkins and Chuck Berry.
Music and breakthrough
Lennon and McCartney wrote most of the songs, but almost every Beatles album included at least one song by Harrison, such as Taxman, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something and Here Comes the Sun. From 1965 he pulled the group towards folk rock and Indian classical music. He got to know the sitar on the set of the film Help! and played that instrument on a series of Beatles songs. In 1967 he also introduced the band to Transcendental Meditation. After the break-up of The Beatles he released the triple album All Things Must Pass (1970), with his biggest hit My Sweet Lord.
Influence
In 1971 he organised the Concert for Bangladesh with the Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a forerunner of charity concerts such as Live Aid. He founded the record label Dark Horse Records and a film company that produced Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979). In 1988 he formed the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with, among others, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle, but his interest in Eastern music left a clear mark on Western pop. He died of cancer in 2001, aged 58.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 1968Wonderwall Music (soundtrack)
- 1969Electronic Sound
- 1970All Things Must Pass
- 1973Living in the Material World
- 1974Dark Horse
- 1975Extra Texture (Read All About It)
- 1976Thirty Three & 1/ॐ
- 1979George Harrison
- 1981Somewhere in England
- 1982Gone Troppo
- 1987Cloud Nine
- 2002Brainwashed
In School of Rock
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- Mixtape 2: Youth Cultures 1950-1980NL Reader
- Mixtape 3: The BeatlesNL Reader
- Mixtape 4: When Rock Was Still PopNL Reader
- The Dream Factory: Film Reel 6NL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Raga rock Genre
George Harrison played sitar on Norwegian Wood (1965) by The Beatles and later took lessons from Ravi Shankar; The Byrds and The Rolling Stones, with Paint It Black (1966), also used the sound.
- Indian classical music Genre
In the 1960s the sitar player Ravi Shankar brought this music to the West: he taught George Harrison and played at the festivals of Monterey (1967) and Woodstock (1969).